johnannes design form basic von itten johannes maass john (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very good. 22 x 29cm 190pp very good hardback in yellow and black dust jacket. Inside jacket flaps slightly curled, a tiny nick to top of jacket close to spine. From the cover notes: 'Here for the first time, is a complete description of one of the landmarks of modern art education, written by the teacher who organised it at the invitation of Walteer Gropius in 1919.' With English text, black and white reproductions. Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 25 March 1967) was a Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus) school. Together with German-American painter Lyonel Feininger and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, under the direction of German architect Walter Gropius, Itten was part of the core of the Weimar Bauhaus.